| Special Interest Group of the MAA | SIGMAA on Research in |
| SIGMAA on RUME Guidelines Committee Report, February 8, 2004 |
| Committee Members: Ed Dubinsky, Karen Graham, Shandy Hauk, Karen King, Teri Jo Murphy, Mike Oehrtman, John Selden (Chair). The Guidelines Committee has produced a draft of the Ph.D. Guidelines that will shortly be sent out to the membership for comments. We will submit a final version to the Executive Committee after receiving membership comments and making appropriate changes. We expect Ph.D. programs leading to a specialization in RUME (like those leading to research in mathematics) to have both considerable variation across universities and also a number of commonalities. The Guidelines speak to the commonalities, and are thus, very general. In order to speak to the variation, the Guidelines Committee is sponsoring a panel on implementing, or supplementing, the Guidelines into specific sample Ph.D. programs at the January 2005 AMS/MAA Joint Meetings. The idea is that the papers from the panel would be put on the Web with a link from the Guidelines and provide a variety of suggestions for Ph.D.-granting mathematics departments that want to start a specialty in RUME. Respectfully submitted, |